by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2020 | Features, Winter 2020
Where did China get its first cup of tea? Who invented boomerangs in Australia? How did African leopards get their spots? Though there are plenty of factual answers to these questions, we can often learn more about a country from its bedtime stories than its history...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 28, 2020 | Fall 2019, Insider
The elements can be ruthless. Whether it be fire, flood, tsunami, or earthquake, natural disasters have been known to thoroughly destroy the lives and livelihoods of people worldwide. Take the 7.5 earthquake and tsunami of December 2018 in Indonesia, in which more...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 28, 2020 | Field Notes, Highway Highlight, Winter 2020
I first saw the Danube River at night. After a long flight from Salt Lake to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Budapest—“Budapesht,” corrected my Hungarian-speaking husband—we were cold (’twas the day after Christmas), hungry, and exhausted. We decided we couldn’t let...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 25, 2020 | Away For A Weekend, Getaways, Winter 2020
It all started with an earthquake. On March 20, 1980, the communities in Skamania County, Washington, US, experienced a 4.2 magnitude earthquake; this was the first definite sign that Mount St. Helens, a volcano that had been largely dormant, was about to erupt. Over...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 25, 2020 | Escapades, Winter 2020
Are you in for a ride? Then coast through history with us and discover some of the oldest amusement parks in the world. 1. Bakken (Dyrehavsbakken) • Klampenborg, Denmark • 1583 Dyrehavsbakken, or Bakken for short, is the world’s oldest operational amusement park....
